New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-15
COAL STRIKERS MAKEAG GAIN,
THE CAPTAINS OF THE TRANSFER BOATS
QUIT WORK.

"InSLi VIII foLiCEMEN NOT ALLOWED TO GO
wEEHAwKEN-No SIGNS OF DISORDER.
There was no trouble at Weehawken YESTERDAY
and no indication Of trouble. The constables and
special deputy sheriffs remained in the vicinity
Of the coal wharves all day, but had nothing to
do. The men who worked Thursday under tho
protection of the jersey City police began work
at 8 a. m. and continued at it all day. but did
not accomplish much. While three men were unr
loading car on trestle through the careless
ness OF trackman a loaded car broke loose
and rushed rapidly down the incline. Two of
the men saved themselves by jumping. The third,
Jacob Greiner, was hurled from the car by the
collision and fell through the trestle to the
ground He was picked up unconscious and taken
in an ambulance to st. Mary's Hospital, Hoboken.
His condition is critical
The strikers were strengthened in the afternoon
by the accession Of fifty-two "transferrcrs' to
their ranks. They quit work at 3 o'clock, and
when the news reached the main body of the
strikers. who were assembled at Sturm's Pavilion,
it was greeted ioyfully.
The jersey City police were not taken to tho
wharves yesterday. When Mayor Cleveland
heard Of their presence there the day before he
was indignant and said IL was an outrage that
the policemen should Lave been taken beyond the
city limits to protect the interests of private
corporation. The Mayor had an interview with
Chiefof- Police Murphy and said to him that no
one had right to send the police out Of the
city to do duty. In an interview with
TRIBUNE reporter the Mayor said:
1t outrage that hope will again. u
not the Jersey City to interfere between tho
up the price OF coal put down the OF their hands
tl the men get hardly enough to keep their families
Jersey City to interfere at all we should
interfere to assist and protect the men who are lighting
the gre great Of the country The Police Depart
men of Jersey City will discharge its entire duty 10 this
II called upon BY one Of the Companies here viii bs
the duty OF the department interfere unless the
comp cO%pauy Fo from loss during this strike Let tho
and there will be no strike The Police Departments
should be used primarily for the protection OF our people
ms er but not for the procoa @ 81 for
%'onOPoiss The sending OF our men hey beyond noa tho
men was an ,, amazing piece OF ,@puas%ee a
body Soa 4 for it, the DO no believe
again II find that TIL, service is included In the pay OF
blame the men themselves. they have obey orders,
and the orders am told from the president OF the
Police Board.
Chief Murphy subsequently, stated TO the re-
porter that the men sent to the wharf nc the
request of Sheriff Hentze, who had not entire con-
fdence In his special deputies. They were sent with
the unucrStaDQlNg tuIt IL WOuu OniS Dc ioi
day.
The "transferrers7 are the captains Of thd
transfer bargcs. Unless the company is able to
secure new men TO take their places all the cities
that have been depending largely Oh Weehawken
for their supply Of coal will be Shut Off as there
Is no other channel through which the coal
can be carried. Just how this strike OF the
transferrers was brought about is not clear, but
1t is supposed that they quit in response to an
order from high authority among the knlghts-
The leaders Of the strikers regret exceedingly
the outbreak of Wednesday AMI say that there
was nothing prcconcerted about it, The Wee
hawkcn men saw the boatoad of strikers como
TO the dock and land, and thinking that they
were men hired to take their places they rushed
at them with the intention Of driving them them
back to their boat II was during the disordeE
that followed that James McNeary, of No. 50
Henry ST., New-iork, was struck on the head
with a shovel and received injuries which re-
suited in his death the following day at Roose-
\elt Hospital. AS soon as IL was asccftaileu
that the man was seriously injured DETECTIVE
William Wright engaged by the coal COM
pany to ascertain. if possible. the name OF tho
assailant and the attendant circumstances lie
has learned that the man who struck the fatal
blow was one Wallace who lives in lloboken; hc
has fed. A man named Sullivan, OF No. l,oo2
sixth-ave., Newiork, was seriously injured tho
same day. He was struck on the he;u WIFI |"
shovel in the hands Of one OF the strikers, AMI
il is feared that his skull was fractured He
is at his home in critical condition.
Affairs remained quiet at Port johnson yester-
day. The strikers held their usual daily meet
ing in Bradys Hail. but transacted no business
of importance The majority of them con-
demn the Weehawken strikers for resorting "a
violence. and say that il Injuries their cause.
The handlers who struck work on the Della
ware Lacllawann and Western wharves at fio-
boken are orderly and well behaved and havd
made no attempt to interfere with the men VINO
have taken their places. 1t is estimated thao
IS 900 men engaged in handling coal are out on
work. This includes the men at the Amboys, 40
Bayonnc, IIobolen and Weehawken and the men
formerly employed at the mines.